CNDP India: Press Release on the North Korean Nuclear Test
Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP), India
[12 Oct 2006]
PRESS RELEASE ON NORTH KOREAN NUKE TEST
The CNDP condemns the nuclear test by North Korea. This act will only further raise nuclear tensions regionally and globally and help accelerate existing plans of the United States for the construction of Ballistic Missile Defence systems and Theatre Missile Defence systems and entice other countries to take shelter under its "protective umbrella".
The existing nuclear weapons states (including India) have, for very obvious reasons, no moral or political right to criticise North Korea when they themselves have rationalised their own possession of nuclear weapons and thereby promoted the proliferation of such weapons. It is they, and the US in particular, thereby bear the primary responsibility for the failure of the current non-proliferation regime based on the NPT.
At any rate, sanctions which hurt the people of North Korea is not the path to take.
It is well known that North Korea has declared its willingness to abjure such weapons in return for security assurances from the US and full normalisation of political/diplomatic relations between the two countries. It is the US that has opposed this and pressure must be brought on it to return to the negotiating table and take this eminently sensible path and desist from any further brinkmanship and adventurism.
Praful Bidwai
J. Sri Raman
Sukla Sen
for CNDP
[12 Oct 2006]
PRESS RELEASE ON NORTH KOREAN NUKE TEST
The CNDP condemns the nuclear test by North Korea. This act will only further raise nuclear tensions regionally and globally and help accelerate existing plans of the United States for the construction of Ballistic Missile Defence systems and Theatre Missile Defence systems and entice other countries to take shelter under its "protective umbrella".
The existing nuclear weapons states (including India) have, for very obvious reasons, no moral or political right to criticise North Korea when they themselves have rationalised their own possession of nuclear weapons and thereby promoted the proliferation of such weapons. It is they, and the US in particular, thereby bear the primary responsibility for the failure of the current non-proliferation regime based on the NPT.
At any rate, sanctions which hurt the people of North Korea is not the path to take.
It is well known that North Korea has declared its willingness to abjure such weapons in return for security assurances from the US and full normalisation of political/diplomatic relations between the two countries. It is the US that has opposed this and pressure must be brought on it to return to the negotiating table and take this eminently sensible path and desist from any further brinkmanship and adventurism.
Praful Bidwai
J. Sri Raman
Sukla Sen
for CNDP
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